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1. Cookies

How time flies. I thought I'd be back here sooner, but I think there's some sort of time warp thing that happens when its really hot. Like, everything slows down and days go by and you don't even know what you've been doing. It all kind of melts together, and next thing you know its been weeks since you've updated your blog.

So I said I'd have the finished art of the mice reading the letter done, but I don't. Its been worked on and changed and added to - a lot - and will be done soon! No, really. I've had to switch over to other things. And one of them I can show is this cookie art.



These are actually all individual drawings, which I did a mash-up of for a group portrait. This is what they really look like ~












They're all Prismacolor colored pencils on paper, and are all ACEO size (2.5" x 3.5").

I've already made prints available of the group shot, but am thinking of putting some of these originals for sale as well. If I can get my brain out of slo-mo enough to get it together. Really, when its 100 degrees, I have to do more 'lie downs' and everything is so much more of an effort. And I have good A/C! But still. 

When I was a kid, before we got central air installed, we had a regular air conditioner in the up-high bathroom window. I so clearly remember going in there and turning it up full blast, then laying down on the floor in the dark with the door shut, just soaking in the freezing air coming out, for as long as I could get away with before I either froze, or someone knocked to see what was up. 

Anyways. Yeah. Cookies! Please let me know if you're interested in any one in particular, and I'll put a listing together for you in the shop. The background on the originals is a warm white with some paper texture. I've cleaned all that up for the prints and made it very white - just fyi.

Hope its cool where you are!!

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2. Olympic Pretzel Rings

I had this idea as I was going to bed the other night. I was thinking of what I wanted to draw next, and thought "ooh, maybe pretzels", then BAM, from wherever these things come from, this fell and hit me.



Its all done with colored pencils. I could have done a digital piece, but that wouldn't have been any fun.

I will now be scurrying to make products in my shops so folks can (hopefully) buy a shirt or stein or something with this image on it to enhance their Olympic-watching experience.

(Apologies for the © notice overkill, but I figure this is exactly the kind of image that will be ripe for plucking.)

Is it hot where you live? Its 100 and something here. Bleah.



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3. Too hot to draw


I tried to draw something and the paper stuck to me.

We're having our first heat wave, and its so gross. As I type this I'm hearing police sirens going (and strangely, some that sound like British ones), and am imagining that some poor soul has lost their mind and done some horribly violent thing because ITS TOO HOT. Its 90-something, tomorrow is supposed to hit 100.

Yesterday was getting there, but I managed to muster up the strength to do a bit of shopping. Just a little. I found this cute cabbage condiment jar, and just had to have it. Some cute rooster fabric had my name on it too, although I haven't figured out yet what to do with it. Pot holders, aprons, something else crafty maybe.

I know the heat has affected my brain because I feel like knitting.

Must ... lie ... down ... Read the rest of this post

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